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Steffen Peters on Rosamunde was confirmed Thursday for the World Cup Final in Omaha in two weeks, joining America’s Olympic bronze medal team mates Laura Graves and Kasey Perry-Glass in the starting lineup of the championship.

Steffen, the 2009 champion on Ravel, was named to fill an extra starting place based on a world ranking of No. 23 on Rosamunde, a 10-year-old Rhinelander mare.

Steffen, 52 years old, will be the oldest rider in the Final for Mar. 27-April 2 and the first time staged in the American heartland city.

Based in San Diego, California, Steffen last competed in the World Cup in Las Vegas in 2015, on Legolas the horse he competed for the United States at the 2016 Olympics, the 2014 World Games in Normandy and as team and individual gold medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games.

The selection of Steffen completes the lineup of 18 riders for the Final, the 32nd year of the annual championship based on the Grand Prix Freestyle.

The lineup of participants with their expected horses for the Mar. 27-April 2 championship is:

North American League
1. Laura Graves, 29 years old, of the United States and Verdades, 15-year-old KWPN gelding. WR: 4
2. Kasey Perry-Glass, 29 years old, of the United States and Dublet, 14-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding. WR: 17

Youngest rider is Brazil’s João Victor Marcari Oliva at 21 who was not born when Isabell Werth won the title for the first time in 1992 at the age of 22.

Since the first World Cup Final in 1986, the Netherlands have won 13 times, nine by Anky van Grunsven (five on Bonfire, four on Salinero); Germany eight times; Great Britain (Charlotte Dujardin/Valegro 2014-15), Switzerland (Christine Stückelberger/Gaugin de Lully 1987-88) and the United States (Debbie McDonald/Brentina 2003, Steffen Peters/Ravel 2009) twice each. Denmark, France, Finland and Sweden have each won the title once.

Wendi Williamson on Dejavu MH will be the first pair from New Zealand ever to compete at a World Cup Final.